Jared’s Blog

Ordered me one of these tonight. Comes with a few games too. So I’m happy about that. I’m also in search of a good leather computer type chair. My parents want to get me one for my birthday.

I know, I know. I should update more. I haven’t had much to say though. Not to mention I’ve been working 10 hour days. I did put up a picture gallery. After wrestling to install Gallery for a couple days, I tried out Coppermine and it seems to suit me well. At some point I’ll have to make a theme for it to fit my site. For now just browse the pictures I’ve put up.

I stumbled upon this link yesterday while reading my favorite forums at Neowin.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=206922&hl=woods

I don’t know if these are real, digitally altered, or what. What I do know is they gave me the chills just looking at them. Especially #25. You can view them here.

Yesterday, was a special day for a couple reasons. First of all, it was my birthday. This was the first year that I really didn’t care if I got anything, and truthfully, I didn’t care if anyone remembered. It helped that it also happened to be the day my sister, Brenna, was moving off to college.

I remember the day I moved off to college. I had be eagrly awaiting it for months (maybe even years). As I’ve said so many times before, Virginia tends to bore me and get on my nerves. Moving off to college, I hoped, would get me on the fast track out of here. Looks like it didn’t work so well because I am back here right now, but I digress. I had everything I needed packed up into our two minivans the night before and I rushed off to bed like a rich kid on Christmas Eve. The next morning, I woke up early, and made the trek down to St. John’s. Upon arriving, I was immediately thrown into the move in day chaos.

I’m sure you’ve seen it in a movie or two. That first day of college (especially for freshman) where only chaos rules. Being that I was moving into the sophmore dorms instead of the freshman variety, afforded me a lot of the hassle. However, I was living on the 3rd floor and that meant hauling everything in an elevator (or up the stairs). I think we did a bit of both, but most of it went up the stairs.

I was greeted at my new room by one of my best friends, Andy, who I went to high school with. He was the reason I was there. He’d talked me into checking out the campus and it was him who got me into the sophmore dorms. Together, with some help from our families, we put together our loft, and moved things in. I can remember thinking that living in that small of a room was going to suck really bad. As not to disappoint, it did. However, those are some memories I’ll hold on to forever. It’s almost like you’re a kid again. No parents. There are a few building and school rules. Other than that, its up to you. Looking back, I was an idiot. I didn’t know shit even though I thought I did. I made a ton of mistakes. But I wouldn’t change a thing.

So this past Sunday when I moved my sister down to college, I was trying to put myself in her place. The confusion, the fun, orientation, new friends, a roommate, and every other thing that rolls through your head on the first day at college. To all the freshman out there. Make this year count. Do stupid stuff in your dorm. Get drunk every weekend. Go to class (or skip it). It’s all a part of the college experience. Take it from someone who’s been there. You can only get away with these things once in life.

I’ll leave with my freshman year motto: “There’s a time and a place for everything, and that place is college.”

Sorry for lack of updates, hasn’t been much of anything too exciting to post. I got a couple new geek toys for free today. One is the Lanplex. I’m pretty sure it’s some kind of router, but I’m not totally sure. I know my high school used it as their main backbone. It was used to divide the school Appletalk network into zones (basically vlans if you know networking). Don’t really know if the ports are 10 or 100base. I know one port is at least. I figured at least it’d be a good learning tool or I can make some money off ebay with it. The other thing I got was an Asante 5216. It’s a 16 port 10base managed switch. Again, not so great, but a good learning tool/money making item.

Here’s a couple pics:

Both boxes on my floor.
A side shot of the Asante.
A similar shot of the Lanplex

I finally got searching done up like I wanted on my videos. I also added 3 new reviews. I’m finally done adding music videos I’ve got burned to CD. Now there’s about 15 more CD’s worth of material to catalogue in my database yet. Check it all out.